http://blog.fortinet.com/friendly-spam/ Real Time Network Protection Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:31:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://blog.fortinet.com/friendly-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-939 Andrew Yeomans Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:48:58 +0000 http://blog.fortinet.com/?p=397#comment-939 Wouldn't it be nice if you could create a general filter rule based on number of recipients? So that email just to you gets greater priority than the one to all the company. And if this was done automatically, it would be a deterrant form including everyone in the cc list. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a general filter rule based on number of recipients? So that email just to you gets greater priority than the one to all the company. And if this was done automatically, it would be a deterrant form including everyone in the cc list.

]]> http://blog.fortinet.com/friendly-spam/comment-page-1/#comment-928 jcg Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:43:09 +0000 http://blog.fortinet.com/?p=397#comment-928 i use this method: in outlook, i establish "To" as one of the fields in the grid and make it small (i don't need to see it - you'll see why). when i get an email from a known friendly spammer, i hover the mouse over the "To" field and a tooltip pops up with the full list (since it doesn't fit in the narrow field i gave it). it will either come up with a few names, so i should probably read it if the subject is compelling, or it will come up with a long list that doesn't fit on the screen which means that it went to everyone on his list, so i can safely ignore it. i use this method: in outlook, i establish “To” as one of the fields in the grid and make it small (i don’t need to see it – you’ll see why). when i get an email from a known friendly spammer, i hover the mouse over the “To” field and a tooltip pops up with the full list (since it doesn’t fit in the narrow field i gave it). it will either come up with a few names, so i should probably read it if the subject is compelling, or it will come up with a long list that doesn’t fit on the screen which means that it went to everyone on his list, so i can safely ignore it.

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